Ukunika ingxelo kwimeko yamava obomi esixhoseni

[摘要] The aim of this study is to explore and encourage the use of accounts in the sensethat events occur in our societies that compel those who are victims of thosecircumstances to give account of their experiences.The theme of this study is based on statements about events such as abuse,cheating, death and being HIV positive and on answers to such events. In respect ofthe theory of image restoration, Benoit (1995) discusses why people should giveaccount of their wrongdoings and narrate such events. He states that language andcommunication practitioners as well as the great philosophers in communities havean interest in how image restoration works in our communities. This research focuseson the Benoit theory.People give account in everyday life of their wrongdoings or of accusations ofwrongdoing, since this helps to restore their reputations. The focus of this study is onthe use of accounts in Xhosa culture as a strategy in the narration of life stories.According to Benoit (1995), accounts are excuses and justifications that areresponses to offence or failure events such as requests for an account of theviolation of a norm, of the rebuke of another person and of the expression of surpriseor disgust at certain behaviours.This study illustrates how to give account of your own experience. In this regard,Gergen (1994) states that the term 'self-narrative refers to an individual's account ofthe relationship of self-relevant events across time, while White and Epston (1990)state that people give meaning to their lives and relationships by narrating storiesabout their experience of life.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University